Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Hilltop Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 601 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE6 1XH
Ashbourne South · Derbyshire Dales · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ashbourne South
- Local authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales
- Postcode district
- DE6
- Postcode sector
- DE6 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE6 1XH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 April 2014
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE6
- Postcode sector
- DE6 1
- Latitude
- 53.008019
- Longitude
- -1.718882
- British National Grid easting
- 418,960
- British National Grid northing
- 345,669
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Derbyshire Dales · E07000035
- Electoral ward
- Ashbourne South · E05014590
- Parish or community
- E04002717
- Westminster constituency
- Derbyshire Dales · E14001195
- Output area
- E00180380
- Lower layer super output area
- Derbyshire Dales 009C · E01019597
- Middle layer super output area
- Derbyshire Dales 009 · E02004076
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore DE6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 601 m
Hilltop Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
Ashbourne Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
St Oswald's CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 558
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 254
- Public order 75
- Anti social behaviour 64
- Criminal damage and arson 42
- Shoplifting 35
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DE6 1 residents
- 11,718
Age bands in DE6 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.3%
1,847 residents
1,152 residents
2,416 residents
3,551 residents
2,878 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
ASHBOURNE MEDICAL PRACTICE
CLIFTON ROAD, ASHBOURNE, DE6 1DR
ODS code C81037
1.4 km
HENMORE HEALTH - ASHBOURNE SURGERY
CLIFTON ROAD, ASHBOURNE, DE6 1RR
ODS code C81086
1.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Stanton Road
BCT · Spitalhill
- 0.1 miles
Harlow Way
BCT · Spitalhill
- 0.1 miles
Harlow Way
BCT · Spitalhill
- 0.1 miles
Derby Road
BCT · Spitalhill
- 0.1 miles
Derby Road
BCT · Spitalhill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Derbyshire Dales 009C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,334 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
558 published events cover 12 months, averaging 46.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 254 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.